Mike Lookinland Biography

Michael Paul Lookinland (born December 19, 1960) is an American former actor. He is best known for his role as the youngest brother, Bobby Brady, on The Brady Bunch from 1969 until 1974.

Early life

Lookinland was born in 1960 in Mount Pleasant, Utah, a small town eighty miles (128 km) south of Salt Lake City. He has a younger brother, Todd, who starred in The Blue Bird with Elizabeth Taylor, and an older sister, Terese. Lookinland grew up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a self-professed conservationist and "camping nut". He attended the private Chadwick School, on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Southern California, and graduated in 1978.

Career

Lookinland was a TV-commercial actor before he was cast in The Brady Bunch, having done around thirty commercials. He has naturally sandy-colored, wavy hair. Because his hair color did not match Peter's or Greg's natural dark brown color, his was dyed dark brown and straightened. Occasionally, the lights on set were so hot that his dye would run down his face. During the last two seasons of The Brady Bunch, his natural hair color was allowed to show.

His brother, Todd, appeared in a Brady Bunch episode that served as the pilot for a spin-off series, Kelly's Kids, about a husband and wife who adopt three boys, one white, one black, and one Asian. The series was not bought, however.

Lookinland provided the voice of Oblio in the 1971 animated film The Point!. Shortly after the final season of The Brady Bunch wrapped filming, he appeared alongside Jennifer Jones and Paul Newman in the 1974 disaster film blockbuster The Towering Inferno and on the 1970s TV show The Secrets of Isis.

Lookinland reprised his role as Bobby Brady in the 1988 Christmas special A Very Brady Christmas and again in the 1990 sequel series The Bradys, in which Bobby Brady was involved in a racing-car accident, which made him a wheelchair user throughout the series. Lookinland spent several years as a television camera operator and made an uncredited appearance in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady as Shorr, the camera operator during the Brady Bunch episode "Room at the Top".

Having left show business, Lookinland operates a business that makes decorative concrete in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Personal life

Since 1987, Lookinland has been married to Kelly Wermuth, who worked as a script supervisor on Touched by an Angel. They have two sons: Scott (born 1990) and Joe (born 1993). He was portrayed by his son Scott in the TV movie Growing Up Brady. Lookinland is a self-described Deadhead, a veteran of over 100 Grateful Dead shows.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	'	Phillip Allbright
1995	'	Cop #3	Scenes deleted
2003	Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star	Mike Lookinland

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969-1974	'	Robert 'Bobby' Brady	Main role
1971	'	Oblio (voice)	TV film
1971	'	Claude	Disney TV film
1971	Funny Face	Richie	"A Crush on Sandy"
1971	Dead Men Tell No Tales	Bud Riley	TV film
1972	'	Bobby Brady (voice)	"The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island"
1972-73	'	Bobby Brady (voice)	Main role
1975	Isis	Tom Anderson	"How to Find a Friend"
1976-77	'	Bobby Brady	Main role
1977	Little House on the Prairie	Patrick	"Times of Change"
1981	'	Bobby Brady	TV film
1988	'	Bobby Brady	TV film
1989	Day by Day	Bobby Brady	"A Very Brady Episode"
1990	'	Bobby Brady	Main role
1994	'	Sentry #1	"The Stand"
1994	Gambler V: Playing for Keeps	Bosun	TV film
2000	Growing Up Brady	Camera Man	TV film